National Security

DHS Warns That Right-Wing Extremists Could Attack Power Grid

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The Department of Homeland Security is warning that violent domestic groups and racially motivated extremists may attack the electric sector.

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Domestic violent extremists and racially motivated extremists have been developing plans to attack the U.S. electric sector, according to an intelligence bulletin from the Department of Homeland Security that was issued this week and obtained by The Daily Beast.

“DVEs have developed credible, specific plans to attack electricity infrastructure since at...

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